Hat-pin protector.



J. SALON.

HA1 PIN PROTECTOR. APPLICATION FILED SEPT- |4 1914.

1,185,577. Patented MayZjO, 1916. I

JOSEPH BALON, .OF STAUNTON, ILLINOIS.

HAT-PIN PROTECTOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 30, 1916.

Application filed september l l, 1914. Serial No. 861,649.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOSEPH BALoN, a citi- Zen of the United States, residing at Staunton, in the county of Macoupin and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hat-Pin Protectors, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in hat pin protectors, and has for its object the production of a protector which shall be simple and economic of construction and effective for the purpose.

With these ends in view my invention consists in the details of construction and arrangement hereinafter more fully explained.

In order that those familiar with the art to which my invention appertains may know how to make and use my improved protector I will now describe the same referring by numerals to the accompanying drawing in which,

Figure 1 is a longitudinal section showing the protector secured upon the point of a hat pin. Fig. 2 is a top or plan view, Fig. 3 is an enlarged perspective view of the spring employed in connection with the protector; and Fig. 4 is a sectional view taken substantially on the line 44 of Fig. 2.

Similar reference numerals indicate like parts in the several figures of the drawing.

1 is a protector of any desired fanciful design formed with a central bore 2 for the reception of the point of an ordinary hat pin 3. The inner end of the protector 1 is provided upon one side thereof with a recess which communicates with the central bore 2 and arranged transversely across this recess, is a pivot pin 4:, upon which a lever or dog 5 is mounted. This lever or dog 5 is provided upon its inner end with a roughened surface, as shown at 6 and provided at its outer end with a thumb plate 7 by which said dog is operated to disengage the inner end thereof from the pin 3.

The lever is put under spring tension by a holding spring consisting of a single length of resilient wire having a plurality of coils 8 formed intermediate the ends of the wire with said coils bearing upon the outer surface of the protector 1 adjacent the free end of the lever or dog .5. One of the ends or arms 10 of the spring is obliquely ex tended from the coils through the body and having its free extremity returned, as at 13, to secure said arm 10 to the body or protector. The second arm or end 9 of the spring has its free extremity returned, as at 11, toafford an eye adapted to be engaged with the stud 12 carried by the lever or dog 5 adjacent the outer end thereof. It is to be observed that the second end or arm 9 of the spring is obliquely extended from the coils 8 inwardly toward the lever. The spring thus arranged lifts the outer end of the lever 5, and consequently forces the-inner roughened extremity into frictional contact with the pin 3 and thus the protector is held in place.

While I have shown the protector as composed of three spheres joined together, it will be understood that any other fanciful design may be employed and that it may be made of any material suitable for the purpose.

From the construction shown and described it will be seen that there are only a limited number of parts and thatthey may be speedily assembled by simply passing the pin 4 through the lever or dog 5 then passing the arm 10 within the protector thence out and the end turned down as shown in Fig. 2 thus properly locating the spring, whereupon its other arm is connected at its extremity with the short stud 12 on the lever or dog 5 by the eye 11 thus putting the spring under tension operating as heretofore stated to raise the outer end of the lever and to cause the inner roughened end to come into frictional contact with a pin.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination with a body having a longitudinal pin receiving bore, oneend of the body being provided with a longitudinally disposed recess in communication with the bore and a pin gripping lever pivotally mounted by said body and arranged within the recess, the outer end of the lever extending beyond the adjacent end of the body, of

a holding spring for said lever, consisting of a slngle length of resilient wire having a.

plurality of coils formed thereinintermediate of its ends, said coils bearing upon the outer surface of the body adjacent the site end of the lever is held in frictional free end of the lever and one end of the Wire gripping engagement upon the pin. 10 being obliquely extended from the coils In testimony whereof I hereunto afiix my through the body and fixed thereto, the signature in the presence of tWo Witnesses. other end of the Wire being also obliquely JOSEPH BALON. extended from the series of coils inwardly to the lever and connected at its extremity to one end of said lever, whereby the oppo- Witnesses:

Josnrrr W. Rrzzrn, GUSTAV OLSGHEWSKI.

Senior; or? this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Eatente, Washington, E. G. 

